Yes, drugs come with risks. You know what else triggers latent psychosis? Alcohol. Prohibition is not the answer to this problem, education, harm reduction, the freedom to seek information and help without prosecution, is.
> You know what else triggers latent psychosis? Alcohol.
from the link I posted: "The risk for developing schizophrenia spectrum disorders is greatest with cannabis, although other substances such as amphetamines, hallucinogens, opioids, and sedatives also increase
risk"
I'm truly sorry about your brother. I lost a sister and it wrecked me.
But statistically, he got very, very unlucky. I quoted this in another post[1]:
“The incidence rate of cannabis-induced psychosis increased steadily from 2.8 per 100,000 person years in 2006 to 6.1 per 100,000 person years in 2016.”
If people live to be an average of 80, that would affect about 1 in 200 people over a lifetime. Incidentally, the disease that took my sister has almost exactly the same incidence.
Again, I'm very sorry. Both our families were hit with very unlikely tragedies.
It's impossible for the general public to understand any actual risks associated with marijuana while they still believe in the reefer madness nonsense from almost a century ago.
I'm sorry for your loss. Your comment reads like you disapprove of this pardon, which would seem quite short-sighted.
>Your comment reads like you disapprove of this pardon
you are reading into what I said, since I said nothing like that.
>actual risks associated with marijuana while they still believe in the reefer madness
Sure, back in those days, we didn't even know that cigarettes caused cancer, so
we can't judge them based on today's knowledge, but many traditional beliefs did have a folk wisdom "correlation might just be causation"... so how is THC induced psychosis an indictment of the reefer madness hypothesis?
Sorry to hear that. Beyond loss of life, what I’ve seen is an incremental loss of human potential.
Weed smokers tend to lose motivation at larger life goals. Short-term memory issues affect their ability to get to work on time, pay bills, take care of their health, etc.
Yes, there are some who avoid these impacts; yes, alcohol is also bad. But there are a bunch of 40yo wake-and-bakers out there who don’t realize they got caught in a trap. Their life, not mine, but it’s sad.
difficult to measure for sure, like the effectiveness of many criminal statues. How effective are the various restrictions on tobacco, and are you passionate and principled that we should lift all those too, because the side effects are less important than personal freedom?
